Positive Athlete West Region

05/08/2026

Meet the rest of the Positive Athlete x USA Basketball Foundation All-American Team: https://www.positiveathlete.org/all-american-team

20/07/2026

Strong school cultures begin with strong leaders.

We’re proud to announce a new strategic alliance between the Nevada Athletic Directors Association (NADA) and Positive Athlete.

For nearly four decades, NADA has championed the athletic directors who help shape educational athletics across Nevada through leadership, professional development, sportsmanship, and a commitment to student success. Together, we’re building on that foundation by creating even more opportunities to recognize the young people and educators who make a positive impact every day.

Through this alliance, NADA and Positive Athlete will work together to increase awareness and participation across the state, helping more Nevada student-athletes, coaches, athletic directors, athletic trainers, and schools receive the recognition they deserve while elevating the positive stories happening every day in educational athletics.

Every nomination is an opportunity to recognize character, resilience, leadership, and service while connecting student-athletes to resources that prepare them for life beyond the game. We’re honored to partner with NADA in helping elevate the people who make Nevada high school athletics stronger, one story at a time.

15/07/2026

Ten student-athletes. Ten original stories. Pack opens 08.05.26.

A new kind of All-American roster is about to drop. Meet them on 08.05.26.

Positive Athlete and the USA Basketball Foundation will recognize 10 high school basketball student-athletes from across the country, five girls and five boys, whose character and impact stand out beyond the scoreboard.

Get courtside for the reveal: https://www.positiveathlete.org/all-american-team

08/07/2026

This is what it looks like when recognition becomes connection.

At the 2026 Los Angeles Positive Athlete Awards Experience, every moment pointed back to something bigger than an award: the people, stories, and community surrounding these student-athletes.

A night that reminded us how powerful it is to be seen, supported, and celebrated. 🏆

30/06/2026

As we close out June, we're especially grateful for the leaders across Los Angeles who chose to invest in the next generation of Positive Athletes.

Celebrating the executives from healthcare, business, media, hospitality, finance, food service, sports, and entertainment who spent the evening of the 16th meeting with our LA award winners, answering questions, and sharing their experiences. Students asked everything from "What do you actually do every day?" and "How did you get into this career?" to "What's one mistake that taught you something important?" and "How do you handle setbacks?" There were no presentations or scripted discussions. Just honest conversations driven by curiosity, exploration, and a willingness to help students better understand the paths ahead of them.

Conversations like these are why we do programs like Beyond the Game, creating opportunities for nominees to explore careers, ask honest questions, and begin building relationships that extend far beyond athletics. A reminder that sometimes the most valuable thing you can offer a young person isn't an answer. It's access to ask the question.

26/06/2026

One of the projects we wanted to create in the West for this year's Los Angeles Recognition Event was a Yearbook for our 2026 class of winners. We wanted every student to leave with more than an award. We wanted them to leave knowing the stories of the people sitting around them. But it was more than that.

Each yearbook featured winners and the story that brought them to this moment, but it also became part of the evening itself. Students spent dinner introducing themselves to one another, signing each other's books (those blank pages were removed for this video), and discovering just how much they had in common despite coming from different schools, sports, and backgrounds.

The pages in the book served a purpose. While it was winner forward, it also highlighted the organizations helping make these opportunities possible, shared resources and reflections for what comes after high school, and left space for something even more important: each other.

Our hope was to create something that strengthened community, preserved these stories, showcased the partners investing in this generation, and reminded every winner that this recognition is only the beginning of what comes next.

Ultimately, that's what we hope Positive Athlete becomes. Not just moments where accomplishments are recognized, but a community that continues to create meaningful connections, celebrates the organizations investing in young people, and helps students see that they are part of something much bigger than themselves. We believe those investments can accomplish important goals while also being creative, memorable, and genuinely fun.

26/06/2026

Some of the most powerful images from our LA celebration were not from the stage.

They are the hugs, proud smiles, quiet tears, hoots & hollers, and families seeing their students celebrated for the kind of people they are. Behind every Positive Athlete is someone who believed, supported, sacrificed, and showed up.

These are the champions behind the winners we celebrated. Our community could not exist without their support and we are grateful to be a small part of their moments of pride.

24/06/2026

The recognition event may be behind us, but these moments are worth revisiting.

Student-athletes shared dinner, signed +A yearbooks, celebrated one another's accomplishments, heard stories of resilience and leadership, and crossed the stage surrounded by the people who helped them get there.

They arrived from every corner of Los Angeles as swimmers, soccer players, volleyball players, runners, basketball players, and leaders. They left as a class of Positive Athletes.

These are the faces of the night we celebrated in LA 🔥

24/06/2026

Looking back on an unforgettable day celebrating Los Angeles student-athletes at the Positive Athlete Los Angeles Awards Experience last week. 🏆

We are deeply thankful to our partners and donors for making this gathering possible and for championing a mission built on recognizing character, perseverance, leadership, and positivity lived out every day.

To the families, coaches, schools, and nominators, thank you for investing in these young leaders and for helping bring their stories into the light. And to our award winners and every nominee across Los Angeles, congratulations. Your influence stretches well past the field, and your example keeps inspiring teammates, schools, and neighborhoods throughout the region.